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STR’s global update as of November 11, 2023 showed 79% of markets with growth in RevPAR compared to 2019. Different from the previous update, more markets outside of Europe have taken the top positions in recovery as winter approaches in the Northern Hemisphere. Among countries with 50,000 rooms, the United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Singapore, […]

China Trading Desk’s most recent Travel Sentiment Survey said Japan and Thailand have lost significant appeal to Chinese considering their next vacations. China Trading Desk polls 10,000 Chinese quarterly about their overseas travel plans. It found that Japan fell from the most popular destination in the second quarter this year to the 8th most popular. […]

STR reported China hotel data for the week ended July 8. Hotel RevPAR in China was up 41.5% for the week, up against a very easy -13.9% year over year comparison. When compared with the same week in 2019, China Hotel RevPAR was up 8.8%. InterContinental Shenzhen WECC opened its doors on July 1, 2023, located just […]

Cambodia’s international airports in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and Sihanoukville welcomed a combined 2.48 million passengers in the first six months of 2023, representing a 270% year on year increase. The State Secretariat of Civil Aviation said the airports combined on an average of 404 flight movements per week with Phnom Penh the busiest with 602 […]

Radisson Hotel Group announced the 133-room Radisson Hotel Ploenchit Bangkok will open in the second quarter of 2024. RHG signed the former Chateau de Bangkok and will rebrand the upscale hotel on Soi Ruamrudee, situated just 400 meters from the US Embassy. RHG plans to double its footprint in Thailand from five hotels in 2022 to ten by mid-2024. The […]

STR reported China hotel data for the week ended May 27. China hotel RevPAR was up 83.3% year over year while up 4.3% versus the same week in 2019. Singapore hotels’ average room rate and RevPAR were up in April with ARR up 3.3% to S$273.18 from March. Year over year, ARR was up 32.8%. Overall room […]

China’s southern city of Shenzhen has three neighborhoods that are the latest to be locked down due to the spread of Covid. One of those is Huaqiangbei, a busy shopping area home to thousands of stalls selling computer components, mobile phone parts and microchips. The lockdown in the three neighborhoods in Futian district, right now […]